Isidro Blasco’s deconstructions arrive in Lonja de Alicante

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He balances his work. sculpture, photography, painting, architecture and installation. A combination of traditional craftsmanship and contemporary techniques that give their personal stamp to their construction. Isidro Blasco (1960) opens in the Lonja hall next Friday surface detailwill be yours First major exhibition in Alicante“something pending”.

The artist, who is the son of potter and sculptor Arcadi Blasco, is exhibited in two rooms of this space. six large format tracks. His installations arise from a structure with multiple wooden supports that support the superimposition of images. volume and perspective, as a deconstruction of the environment. “They are wooden structures with photographs representing reality displayed with cut images.”

Among the pieces, two of the new creations stand out. First, Train rises in Brooklynsame year he did it for the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, which forms part of the exhibition hyper real. the art of trompe l’oeil. A 5×4 meter high and 3 meter high work consisting of 18 superimposed photographs taken in a New York neighborhood.

The artist during the assembly of the exhibition. INFORMATION

“It’s a very important piece of work for my career – he confirms – because it was part of an exhibition that featured everything from the classics from the 14th century to the present day, and because it was for the Thyssen Museum”. “It was a challenge, so I made an amazing piece that I was very pleased with,” the artist says. He confirms that he brought it to Alicante because “I want people to be able to see it”.

The second, titled There’s No Place Like Home, was exhibited at the Conde Duque headquarters in Madrid last year. “An artifact you can get into, an artifact that surrounds you”. In addition, “having less photography is something I’m doing right now because I want to highlight the importance of the images and focus more on the structure and the tour of the installation.”

This piece refers directly to the pandemic and is very personal. special case during incarceration. The artist, who has lived in New York for 25 years, uses the photographs “from my house in that city”. But covid left him in Madrid. “The running of the bulls forced me to stay in Spain, and in that sense I like to be a bit trapped, like a loop has closed and I’ve decided to stay here, so it’s a very special job.”

The other four sculptures you can see in the exhibition until November 27, their dimensions are slightly smaller and more photographic. “They all have references to New York because they have such aesthetic visual power, they’re images of an apartment in Brooklyn, at the entrance of the subway, where I live in a corner where I buy myself a cup of coffee every day.. …they’re my places.”

The sample is completed with a cavity in which it is collected. models, ceramics and preparatory drawings, all these are from pieces made in the last two years. They accompany the main works, actually works in this room. It’s not a place like home, this is what almost all sketches talk about.

“For example, I hardly ever teach drawings; it’s one of the few times I do. There’s a lot of information in these drawings, a lot of doubt about the mental process of what’s going on in your head; teaching is just exploring that part of the job, and I was a little embarrassed but felt that way.” offer the whole process of what my job isdrawings, models and the final result” underlines the artist participating in this year’s Madrid Contemporary Art Fair (ARCO).

One of his drawings.

David Mud, He achieves that Isidro Blasco, curator of the work exhibited at Conde Duque and author of the catalog text, “shows the complex relationship between the illusionist space of painting and the physical presence of sculpture, through painting, sculpture, installation and all this through the chromatic distortion of his photographs. Social and domestic, public and private. illusory and underpinned in a careful tension between material, structure and chaos”.

Isidro Blasco is also presenting a large installation at the moment. Manhattan Children’s Museum, “It is a structure and very maze for children to play and go through”.

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